Singapore Incubator
One Universe
Monday, August 16th, 2010As an astronomer, I sometimes think in expansive terms. So the title of this article could have just as easily been “One World” or something like that. For it is about the limits of where we live.
But in a real sense while we live in just one universe, in a galaxy like this [...]
Incubator Fun
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Here is a short XtraNormal video about how to work with our incubator. Fun concept and fun to use. Still working on the creative side of it all.
The Big Picture
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010One of my favorite books is an autobiography of Thomas Edison published around 1934 very near the end of his life. In it, the author relates the observation that the phonograph was perhaps Edison’s most radical invention. You see, at the time, no one even thought it was possible to record people’s voices. The idea [...]
Startups – Focus on the Business Model
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Small World Group Incubator is now up and running in Singapore. As we go about our formation actions, we keep reminding ourselves that these “businesses” we are starting up are going to have to really discover their own functioning business model during their first year if possible.
So often in Universities and other places the focus [...]
Getting into Business
Sunday, April 11th, 2010A little remembered episode of my past is that I started a company called Netek in 1984. The “plan”, which was formally written down, was essentially the same as that of Finisar.
Except. That the plan called for us to invent, design, develop, manufacture and sell products for fiber optic network that we were certain that [...]
Singapore Updates
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Things are settling in for SWG in Singapore.
While we still do not have final documents from the National Research Foundation, we are proceeding with a couple of early term sheets and engaged nicely with perhaps 4-5 groups who we hope will come to full fruition.
There is a small interview on a Singapore website that also [...]
Incubator News
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Yesterday I presented Small World Group’s Incubator proposal to Singapore’s National Research Foundation. We were one of 15 proposals that were asked to present from out of the 30 submittals.
The NRF review committee had taken on a herculean task of interviewing 15 incubator managers from around the world all in a single day. Wow. My [...]